Karnataka Assembly Election 2023

Karnataka breaks records with highest voter turnout since 1957

Provisional data reveal 72.81 per cent participation, signalling a potential political shift in the State.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

Exclusion of Darwin’s theory from Class 10 textbooks indicates attempt to rationalise caste system

Is it genuine curriculum rationalisation or part of a plan to promote creationism and Hindu theology in education?

S K Arun Murthi

Japan’s Nobel-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88

The pacifist and anti-nuclear novelist was the second Japanese writer to win a Nobel Prize for literature.

Facebook owner Meta is planning a potential Twitter rival

Meta move comes at a time when Twitter faces unprecedented turmoil under Elon Musk’s ownership.

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India is ignoring its deadly snakebite crisis

Every year, venomous snakes kill thousands in India. But little attention is given to this “poor man’s disease.”

Will male birth control pills ever work?

A male pill could become available soon, but an on-demand male contraceptive may have more potential.

Holocaust-era horrors

In these haunted pages, a teenager becomes a much-loved, albeit flawed, hero.

Karthik Keramalu

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Bengaluru has lost most of them to urbanisation and pollution. And to the politics of encroachment.

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T.S. Eliot with friend Emily Hale in a 1946 family photo in Dorset, Vermont.

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